Garment hanger



May a, 19% www K. MONTGOMERY GARMENT HANGER Fnex Aug. 12, 1922 Patentay 6, 1924.

ED STATES KEITH MONTGOMERY, OF JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS.

' GARMENT HANGER.

Application filed August 12, 1922. Serial no. 581,449.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KEITH MoN'roo nnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jacksonville, in the county of Morgan and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to improvements in garment hangers, and more particularly to provide a hanger of the kind described which is simple, convenient, compact, neat and attractive in appearance, durable, reliable and satisfactory for use wherever found applicable. Another object of my invention is to provide a fabric covered garment hanger made of a single piece of wire, and with means for securing the free ends of the wire together and to a cooperating part of the hanger, while at the same time tightly binding the ends of the covering so as to prevent any unravelling or slipping thereof.

.Many other objects and advantages of the construction herein shown and described will be obvious to those skilled in the art from the disclosure herein given.

To this end my invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts herein shown and described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, wherein like reference characters indicate like or corresponding p i Fig. 1 is a face view of my device;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view of a portion of the reverse side thereof;

Fig. 3 is a section taken substantially on line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

v Fig. 4 is a section taken substantially on line 4-4 of Fig. 2;

gig. 5 is a perspective of the clip blank; an

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the blank as it is applied to thehanger parts to be interconnected.

In the drawings, wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment-of my invention, there is shown a garment hanger made of a single length of wire of any suitable size, material or cross-section, bent to the shape shown. The free ends of the wire 1 and 2 are arranged. parallel to one another, as shown more particularly in Fig. 2, one of the ends extended beyond the other to form. a hook 3, whereby the hanger may be suspended.

The parallel portions of the free ends 1 and 2 are then each bent and extended outwardly in opposite'directions, as at 4, thence bent downwardly, as at 5, to form shoulders, thence extended outwardly and downwardly, as at 6 to form arms, and thence I looped back at the outer ends of the arm portions 6, as at 7, to adjacent their starting point 8, there being an integral connecting portion .9 intermediate the points 8-8, said last mentioned portion extending substantially parallel to and in contact with the inner ends of the portions 44. The por-.

tions 7-7 are substantially straight, being spaced from the portions 4. and 6, except Where theycontact with said ortions at the lower endsof the downward y directed or stepped portions 5, as indicated at 10, and along the portion 9 connecting the inner ends of the portions 7.

The shoulders 5 form stops for preventing the accidental sliding or slipping of the garmentfrom the hanger in a direction longitudinally of the oppositely extended arms. It will be noted that the parts of the han er lie substantially in a single plane, where y the device will take up but very little room in a closet or trunk.

I have found it extremely desirable to provide a covering sleeve or the like about the material of hanger, especially at the garment-contacting portions of the hanger, this covering indicated at 11 and being of any suitable fabric material.

In order to hold the parts in their assembled relation, and also to prevent the covering 11 from sliding relatively of the wire base, or unravellin I have made use of a clip formed preferab y of a sheet of flat A metal initially made into the sha e of the blank shown in Fig. 5, and as s own, T- shaped, the vertical ortion or leg of the T indicated at 12, and the horizontal or top portion indicated at 13. It will be noted that the lower edges 16 of the horizontal portion are upwardly inclined so that the outer ends of the horizontal portion are of less width than their central portions. The clip is applied to the portions of the hen er to be secured together, the same preferafily applied after it has been bent to the shape shown in Fig. 6, so that the body portion of the clip overlies one side of the contacting portions of the hanger and substantially in their plane, or parallel thereto, the free ends 14 and 15 of the clip brought around the are parallel contacting portions of the free ends 1 and 2, the inclined ed es 16 bearing on the top surface of the portions 44 as shown in Fig. 2, and tightly clamped thereat, so as to prevent any displacement of the parts, and also binding the covering material tightly on the wire base. The other leg 12 is bent upwardly toward the "legs lfl and 15 to tightly clamp about the contactlng portion 9 of the hanger securing said part to the parts 4L4:, and also binding the covering thereof.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided a hanger, all of whose parts lie substantially in a single plane and wherein the parts are connected together and reinforced by a single clip, this clip not only holding the parts together, but also tightly binding the covering material to the wire base and preventing accidental slipping unravelling or the like of said cover.

Having thus described my invention, it is obvious that various immaterial modifications may be made in the same without departing from the spirit of my invention; hence I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the exact form, construction, arrangement and combination of parts herein shown'and described, or uses mentioned.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A garment hanger made of a length of single fabric covered wire, the free ends emma brought together in parallelism with one free end extended and bent to provide a hook extending beyond the other free end, the intermediate portion between the ends bent transversely outwardly and downwardly at each side to provide a neck form and thence outwardly and looped down and back to the center providing a pair of arms all lying in substantially the same plane, the looped back intermediate portion of the wire extending from the outer ends of the arms back to the center and engaging the upper portions at said turned down neck portions and at the center providing reinforcements thcreat, and a flat metal clip arranged on one side of said parallel ends and having a pair of oppositely extended portions bent toward one another to tightly clamp together the ends of the parallel portion of said free ends, and also having a depending portion arranged transversely to said extended portions and bent to tightly clamp the looped back portions at the center and rigidly connect the same to said clamped free ends and maintain the parts in engagement. 4

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

KEITH MONTGOMERY.

Witnesses:

RUTH M. EPHRAIM, ROY W. HILL. 

